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Friday, April 1, 2016

52 Ancestors - Week 118: #141 Mehitable (Brown) Dill (1714-1758)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #118:

#141 Mehitable Brown (1714-1758) is #141 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother who married #140 Thomas Dill (1708-1761)  in 1733.


I am descended through:

*  their son #70 Thomas Dill 
(1755-1836), who married 
#71 Hannah Horton (1761-1797) in 1782. 
*  their daughter, #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) who married #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) in 1826.
*  their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884), who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1852.
*  their son, #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), who married #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920) in 1874. 
*  their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                      Mehitable Brown[1–5]    
*  Sex:                         Female   

*  Father:                     Samuel Brown (1686-1739)   
*  Mother:                   Ruth Young (1688-1768)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                       1 October 1714, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States[1]   
*  Death:                      before 1758 (before about age 44), probably Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States   
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:                Thomas Dill (1708-1761)   
*  Marriage Intentions: 2 June 1733 (age 18), Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
*  Marriage:                17 July 1733 (age 18), Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States[2–4]   
*  Child 1:                   Thomas Dill (1734-1737)   
*  Child 2:                   Samuel Dill (1736-1766)   
*  Child 3:                   Thomas Dill (1737-    )   
*  Child 4:                   Aaron Dill (1739-    )   
*  Child 5:                   James Dill (1741-1816)   
*  Child 6:                   Moses Dill (1751-1771)   
*  Child 7:                   Betty Dill (1753-    )   
*  Child 8:                   Thomas Dill (1755-1836)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

 Mehitable Brown was the daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Young) Brown, the fourth of five children.  Her birth was recorded in the Eastham town records as[1]:

"Mehitable Brown the daughter of Samuel and Ruth Brown was Born at Eastham on the first Day of December annodomini : 1714."

Thomas Dill married Mehitable Brown in Eastham, Massachusetts on 17 July 1733[2-4].  The Eastham town record book says:

"July 17: 1733 then Thomas Dill & Mehitable Brown were married by Mr Isaiah Lues."

Thomas and Mehitable (Brown) Dill had at least five children, and probably eight children.  There are records in Medford for sons Thomas, Samuel and Thomas (again), and records in Eastham for sons Aaron and James, but there are no records in either place for Moses, Betty and Thomas (again).  When Thomas died in 1761, guardians were assigned for Moses, Betty and Thomas, so they were all under age 18 at that time.  

Mehitable (Brown) Dill died before 1758 when Thomas Dill married Mary (Baker) Higgins.  

There are no probate records for Mehitable Dill.  There are no known gravestones or burial records for either Mehitable or Thomas Dill.

5)  SOURCES

1. Col. Leonard H. Smith, Jr. and Norma H. Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1993), page 36, Mehitabel Brown birth entry.

2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1627-2001," digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org :, Barnstable > Eastham-Orleans > Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1701-1796 > image 64 of 126, page 109, Thomas Dill and Mehitable Brown marriage entry .

3. The Mayflower Descendant (Boston, Mass. : General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume 17, Page 82, Marriage of Thomas Dill and Mehitable Brown.

4. Col. Leonard H. Smith, Jr. and Norma H. Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans, page 95, Thomas Dill and Mehitable Brown marriage entry.

5. Col. Leonard H. Smith, Jr. and Norma H. Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans, page 145, Thomas Dill and Mehitable Brown marriage intentions entry.

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